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Yael Chaver

Yael Chaver is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.A.) and of the University of California, Berkeley (M.A. and Ph.D.). She is a Research Fellow at U.C. Berkeley, and teaches Yiddish there and in the Berkeley community. Chaver has published several essays on modern Yiddish culture and What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine (2004); the Hebrew version of the book is in press with Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem. She is currently working on projects involving the Yiddish poets Rikuda Potash and Dvoyre Fogel.

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Dvoyre Fogel

Dvoyre Fogel was a Polish-Jewish philosopher, professor, translator, and Yiddish modernist writer of poetry, prose, and literary and art criticism. Fogel’s remarkable experimental poetry was radically avant-garde and attuned to all the modernist minimalisms.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Yael Chaver." (Viewed on March 18, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/chaver-yael>.